The whole running v hitting comparison is a little off, at least that's the way I feel. But if you want to compare hitting .400 to something in the running realm, you might compare it against a pro winning all the races they run in one year. They probably wouldn't pr every race, but to win them all would be an tremendous effort. If someone else mentioned that already sorry to be redundant, didn't read the whole thread.
all props to distance running, but there's a different kind of tired that can be found in wrestling
I won't bother trying to say which is harder, but they both can be tough
It is hard to say what is hardest, but for my money it is shoting clear in a world cup mass start biathlon race.
#1. You ski as fast as you f***ing can, using every muscle in your body.
#2. then You try to hit quarter sized targets from 50m
#3. You can physch yourself out by coming in to fast, coming in to slow, paying to much attention to your competitors. I would say that only 2-3 people on any given day can shoot clear in a mass start biathlon race and still go fast.
The hardest thing to do in all of sports is to get Flagpole Willy and it is true to shut the f*** up.
That, and shagging Suzy Hamilton.
Dick Trickle wrote:
The hardest thing to do in all of sports is to get Flagpole Willy and it is true to shut the f*** up.
That, and shagging Suzy Hamilton.
Dick Trickle,
A few things for you:
1) As I hadn't even commented on this thread till now, why bring me up if you don't like what I say? (HINT: Deep down you LOVE what I say and how I say it).
2) As far as Suzy Hamilton goes, that should be hard since she's a married lady. Women don't exist just so you can put your wang in them.
3) If you go see a doctor for a prostate exam, you just might be able to stop that little trickle of yours.
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HITTING in 52 STRAIGHT GAMES! GIVE ME A BREAK PEOPLE!
NO CONTEST...HITTING IN 52 STRAIGHT GAMES!
Moo wrote:
Hunting and killing a grizzly with your bear(no pun intended) hands is the hardest thing in sport...
Bare*
Finding a positive comment about a US distance runner on letsrun.
Pitching a perfect game is pretty darn hard.
So is stepping into the ring for a heavyweight fight. Of course walking out again is even harder.
id have to say that the hardest thing in all sports is to have a score of 18 in a round of golf.
No CONTEST! wrote:
HITTING in 52 STRAIGHT GAMES! GIVE ME A BREAK PEOPLE!
If you're referring to Dimaggio's streak, it was 56 games, NOT 52 games. If you're just pointing out some arbitrary number (52) then ok, but I do then wonder why you chose that number.
56 games is by far the safest record in hitting. Batting .400 is more likely, but still highly improbable, especially if you're batting in the middle of the order but also have good hitters behind you. Pitching wise no one is going to win 512 games; hell a 300 game winner who began his career in the last 10 years in extremely unlikely given recent trends - for example Santana is already aged 27 and only has 40 odd wins.
Watch the Olympics and ask yourself which things you can and cannot do. I can't run like El Guerrouj, but I can run. I can't swim like Michael Phelps, but I can swim. But there is absolutely no way that I could fly through the air, do three flips, a half twist, wink at the judges, and not die.
Gymnastics has to be the hardest sport. In baseball, if you don't hit the ball, you don't break your neck. In cliff diving, you can't screw up, but you don't have to be able to do an iron cross, either.
polevaulter wrote:
Pole vaulting 19 feet. A lot of people could go out and hit a baseball if they get enough tries. Most people would kill themselves if they tried to sprint down a runway and plant a 16 or 17 foot long pole into a box and jump over a bar.
I agree with pole vaulting being amongst the top couple.
Hitting a baseball hard consistently off a major league pitcher is right with it.
something like 256 americans have broken 4 for the mile. there is more than 256 players in the MLB right now that have a career hit.
This is a question with no answer, but I'll throw in my 2 anyway.
Hitting a baseball with some sort of relative skill(no, not just getting lucky and tipping it)is probably the single hardest thing to do in sport.
It is precisely because as some have said the ability to do it is to a large degree something that you need to be "born with".
Believe me, standing in a batting box with somebody 60 feet away throwing a hard ball in your direction at ninety miles per hour would make most people soil their shorts, not even taking into consideration making some sort of meaningful contact. If you've never done it, TV does not do it justice, it can be a very frightening experience with somebody throwing 90+ mph.
Distance running at a high school level can be achieved with sheer determination and hard work for most individuals. I don't think I could say the same thing for playing baseball at a high school level. I did play high school baseball, and I am now in my 40's and have run times that would have easily put me on the varsity even at this advanced age. However, you can go practice in a batting cage forever and never "get it". It's simply the gift of "hand/eye" coordination.
This does not mean that baseball players are great "athletes", it just means that they can hit a baseball. Ironically, it has little to do with "athletic" ability.
I'm not sure why I'm adding to this since it's been discussed to death...but I agree with the poster who said that it's silly to compare pure athletic feats such as the 100m or 10,000m to feats of skill and hand eye coordination like hitting a major league pitch. There is no way to determine which is harder. The only way to loosely estimate which one is of greater difficulty is to look at how many people have actually done it who have attempted it. But even that comparison is not going to produce a real answer.
tach44444 wrote:
something like 256 americans have broken 4 for the mile. there is more than 256 players in the MLB right now that have a career hit.
Re read the post you freakin' idiot.